Forward, unifying figure, somebody who brings us all together and reminds us what we all have in common despite differences that might have kept us apart in the past. Today it was a republican congressman from kentucky, a man named thomas massy that played that role and proved everyone, democrat and republican could go together in common purpose of being absolutely furious with congressman Thomas Massie because there was no suspension whether they would pass this 2 trillion relief package to property up the economy that more or less shut down during this pandemic. The Senate Passed this legislation a couple days ago 960 unanimously. By all accounts, the vast, vast, vast majority members of the house supported this. The suspension is not whether it would get passed but how the house bill would get passed and how much danger members of congress would have to put themselves in to cast their votes. A vote in the House Chamber is an activity very not conducive to social distancing. All right. Americans are supposed to avoid gatherings of numerous people while there are 435 people in the house of representatives. When they vote they turn up in the same room to cast votes. Another thing everybody is supposed to avoid is travel. As of yesterday, capitol hill sources told us that only a few dozen members of congress were even in washington. Members who wanted to travel to washington, many of them couldnt, even if they wanted to. Even if they had designed to. As of today, four members of the house of representatives tested positive for covid19 and a dozen others were in quarantine because they were in contact with those members or other people that tested positive. How will they cast this vote . House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and house leadership on both sides came together and decided what they would do because there was no suspension about the fact this would pass, what they would do is they would pass this by voice vote and that would mean that not everyone would have to physically be there to do it but then republican congressman Thomas Massie started letting everyone know he planned to make all the other members of Congress Come to the capitol to be there personally to pass it. He planned to object to holding a voice vote. He wanteded to require at leas half of the members to be there in person. 216 people. Everybody had to be there together. Here was a sort of snapshot, a kind of reaction that he got, this was from his fellow republican congressman new york congressman peter king. Quote, heading to washington to vote on pandemic legislation because of one member of congress refusing to allow Emergency Action entire Congress Must be called back for vote to vote in house. Risk of infection and risk of legislation being delayed. Disgraceful. Irresponsible. Again, from his fellow republican member of congress. This was not some abstract thing. This was not an inconvenience Thomas Massie was causing. Youre going to make hundreds of lawmakers crowd into room right now. The house physician, the attending physician of the capitol, the sergeant at arms put out a joint very stark memo yesterday advising members of congress that if and when they came to the capitol today, they shouldnt use the elevators together. They should all take the stairs instead. If they entered the house chamb chamber, they would be required to use Hand Sanitizer on the way in and out and there would be an attempt to keep them apart from one chamber. Honestly, they told members of congress bluntly they should not come to the capitol if they didnt have to. Members should use extreme care and deliberation when making the determination to travel to washington d. C. The office house physician continues to recommend tell l teleworking. Thomas massi e insisted they needed to show up to do so. Here was the unprecedented scene. Members of congress each six feet apart scattered across the house floor and balconies where spectators sit so enough members could be present to block Thomas Massies stunt while putting each others lives in as little danger as possible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seen here diligently disinfecting the microphone before speaking. Beckening all the members to gather in this chamber. This is how it went down. Mr. Speaker, does the gentleman recognize . I object on the basis a qurom is not present. The chair will count coram. The coram is present. The motion is adopted. Without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Pursuant to section b of House Resolution 891 the house is adjourned until 3 00 p. M. On tuesday, mark 3ch 31st, 2020. [ applause ] the house passed that 2 trillion piece of legislation today. President trump signed it this afternoon. He invited no democrats to be there for the signing ceremony but given the lack of respect for social distancing inside the white house perhaps that was for the best in the long run. How soon can americans expect to feel the relief this bill is meant to bring . How important is it it passed now . Is going to happen next . Joining us for the interview is the speaker of the house nancy pelosi. Madam speaker, its an honor to have you with us. Thank you for taking time. My honor to be with you. Thank you for all youre doing to make sure people know what the challenges that we face in this very sad time. Thank you, rachel. Well, thank you for saying so. This is the single most expensive piece of legislation ever passed as far as we can tell in terms of dollars. I have to ask big picture, how comfortable you are what happened today, this vote today, this legislation today will go the distance that America Needs it to go toward holding the economy together and helping us response as best we can to what happened . Legislation that would pass today is a very big down payment but we have much more to do. Just to back up for a moment, the legislation that the republicans passed with their tax scam a couple years ago approached almost 2 trillion and giving 83 of the benefits to the top 1 in our country. The president said today i never signed a 2 trillion bill. He nearly did in that give away that didnt create jobs and only increased the National Debt and was a real disservice to our children and their future. When they talk about this as 2 trillion and all that it does for americas workers and families, it is the least we could do and we have much more to do and i can talk about it, if you wish. Yeah, i want to talk about whats in the bill. I want to talk about the president s signing statement. Your office just put out a statement moments ago on the president using the defense production agent. I feel like i have to ask you about what happened today with congressman Thomas Massie of kentucky, calling for a recorded vote. This remarkable scene of members of congress basically fighting their way back to washington in order to be here because he was going to insist on a recorded vote. You were seen talking to him on the house floor before he raised his objection today. Can i ask you what you said to him and what your view is on what you did today . I tried to be respectful for his enthusiasm for his idea but i did tell him it wasnt going to work, that we will have a voice vote, that he was just and it wasnt going to hold us up too much and recommended that he take his enthusiasm to the floor and speak about why he was unhappy and let that be his statement instead of making a statement that wasnt going to work, that wasnt even going to register on the clock more than like one minute, that we had a plan. That we always knew we would pass this bill and we would pass it today and that would not let any nuisance stand in the way and thats really what he was, a dangerous nuisance but later in the day, we saw that president signed the bill and he was a dangerous president. It was so sad to hear him say as he signed the bill, just think back 20 days, 20 days ago everything was great. Everything was great and now 20 days later, we have this challenge. No, 20 days ago we had nearly 500 cases, 17 deaths, we had a threat that he chose to ignore and now we have about 100,000 cases and over 1500 deaths and hes still in that state where not doing enough for all of the p ppp, the person protective ppe, the personal protective equipment that our brave Health Care Workers, First Responders and the rest who risk their lives to save other peoples lives urgently need. In terms of the president s personal actions and his personal decisions, i was struck by the fact he issued a signing statement when he signed this bill today saying that he would over ride the provision of this bill that lays out some oversight and the establishment of the Inspector General to make sure that some of the business bailout provisions in the bill arent misused. The president saying today that he has no interest in that oversight and hell over ride that. Whats your reaction to that . Well, of course, its not a surprise to anyone but congress will exercise its oversight and we will have our panel of house appointmented by the house in realtime to make sure we know where those funds are being ex pended. Let me say that the president s statement is indicative of the difference between democrats and republicans when it came to this bill. With the bill that was put on the floor last saturday by senator mcconnell was a corporation, corporate down bill. Trickle down, as usual. When it turned into was a bubble up workers first, legislation. Workers and families first. They never thought they would be supporting the provisions that are in the bill that related to Unemployment Insurance and how its expanded in so many ways that all that we would be doing for small businesses, that there would be provisions that would be helpful to families in terms of access to health care and the rest. The bill was jujitsu. We took the bill and turned it around and so they signed it in the white house as if they had some real what was in the bill. They knew the bill was needed and again, we put our conditions on any assistance that was going to industries in our country because we wanted to make sure that workers came first and they did in the bill. And they do in the bill. I know that there are provisions in this legislation to provide support to hospitals, to try to get critical medical supplies produced and distributed to the Front Line Health Care workers that you were just praising. I feel like im what i would expect from the federal government in a pandemic, what i would want from the federal government in terms of their role in a coordinating effort and in a streamlining effort and in a rationalizing ef port fort make sure resources got where they were, i dont have any faith this administration is capable of doing those things even if they should in the way we understand our government, they should take on that kind of a role. Do you believe that the federal government basically will get its act together when it comes to things like personal protective equipment or do you think that this will be led to the bitter end by individual states, individual governors fighting it out on their own . Well, lets make a distinction between the congress of the United States and the president of the United States. And our legislation today we face the reality of what we have to do. This was the third bill in about three weeks, the first two bills were about addressing the emergency about testing, testing, testing. The first bill mask, mask, about research for a cure and a vaccine, all kinds of pieces provisions in the bill to address the emergency. The bill today was more about mitigation. Mitigating for the damage that was done to our economy and how we can address meeting the needs of americas working families so effected by the shutdown all of the provisions to not to have communal coming together. So it is important to note that we still have to do more on emergency, we still have to do on mitigation but the next thrust will be about recovery and how we can create good paying jobs to take the country into the future in a very strong way. At the same time we have to address what you said. Today the president said he was going to do the defense production act so that businesses would be producing more ventilators. A little very late. He said he sent thousands of ventilators to new york. Well maybe onetenth of what they need 4,000 and they probably need ten times that much. Issues that relate to other equipment that is just not in the works and we want the president to expand the defense production act to insist that our industries are making those products. We cant ask people to go into infectious situations again to risk their lives to save another life we should be, we should be making sure they have the equipment that they need. For example, ventilator, its not just a convenience, its a necessity and it is a necessity in realtime. People need ventilators from one moment to the next to stay alive and yet, the president , i dont i just cant understand how those who are advising him scientifically arent just demanding that he do something more drastic in terms of that equipment. We also need much more money for our state and local governments, just much more money for that and if he were to think that they should be left to their own devices, well they should be left with much more money to do so, money that their state haves contributed to the National Treasury and in addition to that, these hospitals need much more when i say hospitals, i mean institutions serving the health needs, whether its nursing homes, hospitals, other institutions that care for people. The list goes on about the needs. And actually, there are other needs, too. We need to expand family and medical leave so it covers more people, which they resisted. We need to address pensions. Actually, in that case, we had the support of the president but not mitch mcconnell. He wouldnt do it. He said hed do it in another bill so were setting up for the next bill. We need to address a disservice to the district of colombia which is appalling and every provision ever theyve always been treated like the state and then they treated him like a territory to the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the people of the district of colombia as they fight the coronavirus. We also need to have strong osha rules that weve been asking for for awhile to make sure that these people who are providing care are protected in the workplace in addition to having the equipment, which is part of which is part of the rule. We want to make sure that when we say the testing was free, that everything that goes with the testing is free so that people dont get a copay that is too high for them to pay because they were told they needed to be testing. The list goes on. There is so many needs that we have in there that are urgent to this health issue that specific to the coronavirus. Were not having a wish list for all time. Were having a coronavirus necessity list, associated with that of course is more money. We got 400 million for elections. We need much more so that we can have the elections first of all to take place and to take place in a way that is more open with more vote by mail and the ability to do so and resources to enable them to do so just to name a few. Just to name a few indeed. Speaker of the house nancy pelosi. Happy birthday. I know you just had your 80th birthday. Thank you for everything you did to get congress back together in this bipartisan work to make sure that it was safe for members to come back today. I know it was a real fight. Thank you. I hope you can get some rest as Congress Recesses and be well. Were getting ready for the next bill. I appreciate your birthday wishes but i wont celebrate until i can hug my grandchildren and children every grandma and mom and dad and parents in the country can do that, as well. Then well all be able to celebrate. But thank you again for the opportunity to share some thoughts with you about how we see our bill and where we go from here next. Thank you, rachel. Madam speaker, thank you. We got much more to get to tonight. Do stay with us. More than ever, your home is your sanctuary. Thats why lincoln offers complimentary pickup and delivery servicing. Well pick up your vehicle and leave you with a lincoln loaner and the peace of mind that helps you focus on what matters most. Thats the power of sanctuary. And for a little extra help, you can now purchase a new lincoln remotely, and defer payment for up to 120 days. Made it myself. I love this place made that myself, too. It is a measure of where we are at on a day when the Congress Passed a bill with 2 trillion wort of spending to sure up the american economy, the dow jones index responded by dropping another 900 plus points. Thats where we are. Last night the United States of america became the largest coronavirus epidemic in the world. Tonight, the u. S. Passed 100,000 known coronavirus cases, that the cases proven by testing. But we have this big asterisks on our case numbers as a country because were the country with the worst testing access in the industrialized world. Were at 100 cases but the epidemic is likely many times that size. The one highly populated place in the United States thats doing a ton of testing is new york. Of the known 100,000 cases in the United States, more than 25,000 of those cases are in new york city alone. Let me show you something about what this week has been like. The first day we started getting daily numbers on not just cases but the numbers of patients hospitalized in new york city, first day we started getting numbers regularly was march 21st this past saturday. On saturday new york city said there were 1,450 coronavirus patients in the hospital in new york. Sunday, the number rose from 1450 to 1800. On monday, it rose to 2200, more than 2200. On tuesday, the number was 2850 patients hospitalized in new york. On wednesday, 3922, on thursday, yesterday, 4,720 coronavirus patients hospitalized in new york. Today we just got in the new york numbers from new york city as of 6 00 p. M. This evening. 5,250 coronavirus patients in new york City Hospital beds now and that number may get rise. Again, thats as of 6 00 p. M. Tonight. It remarkable to see that rise over the course of this week since they first reported the numbers. You plot it on a graph and you can see the daily data but upswing. You can see how the curve is pointing up. I mean, this is the crisis and the first city to be hit with a title wave of sick patients, the steepness of the upward curve. Andrew cuomo addressed the National Guard that will open the first 1,000 hospital beds over the next few days and ultimately probably going to have 2,000 hospital beds on site which is great but only a start given the ten s os of thousands additional beds needed in new york city alone. Weve also been getting daily updates on the death toll. Again, just in new york city at the beginning of this week on saturday the new york city death toll was 60. Its now up to 450. Seeing that on a graph shows the data but the bad upward trend. The New York Times created a special obituary page just for people who died from coronavirus. Today new yorkers started doing something other communities have done in recent weeks all over europe and canada. People staying at home to do their part to top the spread of the virus, come to windows and balconies at 7 ocho 7 00 p. M. Local time to say thank you to front line workers who after all are the infantry for us as the hospitals start to get swamped, especially here where our government cannot get it together to supply even the greatest hospitals in our country with adequate protective equipment to keep hospital worker from themselves being exposed have thiing their lives in danger while caring for us and the sick and caring for the dying. And you mknow, the situation in the worsthit new York Hospitals bears no resemblance whatsoever to the happy talk were doing fine nonsense that were still daily hearing from the white house. All the feet that you see, they all have covid. The frustrating thing about all of this is it really feels like its too little too late. Like we knew, we knew it was coming. Today is kind of getting worse and worse. We had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying. We are right now scrambling to try to get a few additional ventilators or even cpap machines if we can get cpap machines, we could free up ventilators for patients that need them. I dont have the support that i need and even just the mat materials that i need physically to take care of my patients and its america. And were supposed to be a first world country. We were seeing a lot of patients who probably had covid but we didnt realize. Ten residents and also many, many of our nurses and a few of the attending physicians got sick. The anxiety of this situation is really overwhelming. You know, all of the doctors, it hard for us to get tested even if we want to, even if we have symptoms. Were exposed over and over again. We dont have the protective equipment we should have. It put on one n 95 mask in the morning. I need to have that n 95 mask on for every patient i see. I dont take it off all day. The n 95 mask i wore today is also the n 95 mask i wore on friday. So many people are saying it going to be okay. Everything is fine. We have what we need. And if this goes on for a month or two or three or five, like it did in china, and were already this strained, we dont have what we need. I dont really care if i get in trouble for speaking to the media. I want people to know that this is bad. Since the New York Times posted that account from elmhurst hospital in queens and from that doctor, that hospital has reportedly been sent 40 more ventilators and roughly 50 more Health Care Workers. Also, this sign has gone up across the street. Thank you to the people working there. Were going to be talking in just a moment with the chair of emergency medicine at the Brooklyn Hospital center dealing with many of the same challenges. They are, in fact, asking for some doctors and nurses and respiratory therapist and Health Care Workers that volunteered by the thousands to be part of a new york medical reserve core to please come on board, to please get assigned to them as their doctors and residents and other workers started to fill ill. That interview is coming up next. But i want to tell you, it is really not just new york. The conference of mayors released a survey in 213 u. S. Cities, nearly 90 of the mayors said they already lack sufficient test kits and face ma masks and other protective equipment for emergency room workers and First Responders. 85 of mayors said their hospitals do not have enough ventilators. The governor in the great state of colorado tonight gave a briefing on that states stay at home order saying so far in colorado on average, each infected person is infecting three to four other people. Which is a considerably higher infection rate than it was in china when china was at it worst. Governor saying tonight colorado has 900 ventilators and they believe they will need 7,000. Here is one other report tonight from southwest, georgia, not from atlanta but rural southwest georgia, albany georgia where the nearest interstate is 40 miles east and there is no reason for local officials to blame it on new york city or blame it on china or blame it on any other foreign influence. The lone Hospital Network at the center of the coronavirus storm, the sudden deluge of critically ill patients when reports first came out, the ceo said the hospital tried to prepare by building up a sixmonth storage of supplies. The hospital burned through the sixmonth stockpile in seven days when the virus hit their hospital he said. Quote, what we were not prepared for was the sheer numbers. Once of this week the hospital in albany georgia announced all 38 of the intensive care beds for coronavirus patients were full. The following day after five other hospitals agreed to take transfers, phoebe had one bed open. They are working on an overflow hospital but to staff those units, the hospitals ceo needs about 50 to 75 more nurses along with more nurse assistants and respiratory therapists and doctors. He turned to the Georgia Governors Office and the department of Public Health to please try to find those workers. He also needs workers now to back fill for staffers at that hospital who have already fallen ill. So far, at least 18 workers at that one rural georgia hospital have tested positive for covid19. Unable to find replacements to help has told hospital workers they must report for duty even if they have tested positive. Thats not new york city. Thats not king county seattle, washington. Thats not even new orleans which is 400 miles away from there. That the rural black belt georgia. This is a national crisis. This is not the kind of crisis that each state can fix on their own or each town or each hospital can approach on their own. This is a national thing. Which would make it wonderful if we had National Leadership and a National Response but we dont. So we do what we can. Were going to talk with a chief of emergency medicine at a hardhit hospital in brooklyn, new york, live next. Fact is, every Insurance Company hopes you drive safely. But allstate helps you. With drivewise. Feedback that helps you drive safer. And that can lower your cost now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . You want a freshsmelling home, but some air fresheners use heavy, overwhelming scents. Try febreze one; a range of innovative air fresheners with no heavy perfumes that you can feel good about using in your home to deliver a light, naturalsmelling freshness. Febreze one neutralizes stale, stuffy odors and releases a subtle hint of fragrance like bamboo or lavender eucalyptus. 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The hospitals chair of emergency medicine is dr. Cilia that said if the patient volume keeps increasing at the current pace, the emergency room will be autoof space by next week. The hospital has 18 icu beds and quickly filled up and added more as the hospitals staff started to fall ill, they have asked for volunteers from new yorks medical reserve core to please come help replenish their ranks. Joining us now live is chair of emergency medicine at Brooklyn Hospital. Thank you for joining us tonight. I know this is probably the last thing you want to be doing. Thank you for having me. Can i just start by asking how you are and how your staff is holding up . Were holding up. Were doing the best we can. One day at a time. Youre in charge of emergency medicine at one of the hospitals that is at the epicenter of this crisis. What can you tell me and the country about the kind of pace and increase youve seen when you started getting your first patients and how rapidly the pace started to accelerate and how the pace is now in terms of new patients. When we started screening on march 3rd for any patient that had influenza like symptoms in preparation for what was to come and since then weve seen and screened approximately 950 patient patients. In terms of that kind of number and the capacity of your hospital, i know youre in charge of emergency medicine. Weve seen data about intensive care beds and ventilators. How tell us about the ratio between that influx of patients and what youre capable of managing on a day to day basis. How full are you right now . Right. This influx of patients in addition to our regular volumes of emergencies that we see on a daily basis, we see approximately 75,000 patients a year so that comes out to 200, 250 patients a day. These 950 patients are in addition to our regular volume so you can imagine the challenge so once we started screening, we quickly realized we needed a x mechanism to keep the patients who are the least symptomatic out of the Emergency Department and we installed a tent eight days ago outside of the hospital to give us the ability to screen those who could possibly be treated at home and thats what weve been doing for the last eight days. For those who rewe can newe rec having more severe symptoms we bring to the Emergency Department. We essentially separated our Emergency Department into a safe zone to evaluate patients with coronavirus. We had no other choice to protect the other patients who come in with heart attacks and strokes or regular mrpemergenci and the staff. So our zone where we see the patient suspected as having coronavirus is completely flooded overwhelmed, under staffed. We doing the best keep can. They range from minor symptoms to very critically ill patients that require life support. Many of them remain in the Emergency Department because we have no space in the icu to move them up. Do you feel like you have access to resources either to transfer patients, to tap more personnel to come in to bolster your ranks among you and your colleagues, to access more protective equipment as it has r run, to access more expertise if you need more people to develop systems where youre separating covid patients. Do you feel like you have resources to tap to scale up to do the kinds of things youre describing . We do not. What we do right now as of today, were able to take care of the patients we have currently and we had a tremendous outpouring of support from the Community Since we are a community hospital, we had multiple donations of protective equipment which is vetted by our supply chain folks and then put into circulation so we have been extremely fortunate in that sense that we have not yet run out but i dont know what tomorrow holds or next week holds. I can only take it one day at a time. Doctor, chair of emergency medicine at Brooklyn Hospital center. Thank you for your time tonight. I feel like i want to thank you on behalf of all of us. I know it doesnt mean much to hear thank you but everybody in the whole country is pulling for ya. Thank you, thank you for having me. All right. Much more to get to tonight. Stay with us. Adventure. To reconnect and be together. 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Radiological services, medical lab, a far see and Optometry Lab and cat scan and two oxygen producing plants. On the day the mercy arrived in los angeles, the Commanding Officer of one of the floating miracles joins us now live from on board that ship. Captain john is the Commanding Officer of the mercy. Sir, captain, it an honor to have you tonight. Thank you for making time. On behalf of the men and women, its an honor to be here with you. What can you explain to our audience, to us tonight about what the mercy is capable of. We short hand it as a floating hospital. We seen the mercy and comfort deploy to disaster zones abroad. What should americans expect to the capability youre going to bring to los angeles . We offer a broad range of medical specialties. We have work beds, operating rooms, as you mentioned. Were a very capable hospital. Weve been describing your ship as having 1,000 beds. And i know that you have a lot more than beds on board. Should californians expect that the mercy would be used specifically for treatment of coronavirus patients or isolation of patients who have tested positive or are showing symptoms or do you expect your ship will be used more for noncoronavirus, fonnoncovid patients to take on the responsibilities other hospitals are not able to comfortabe fofy provide. So our specific mission is to provide care for nonspecific coronavirus patients so hospitals can focus time and resources on patients with the coronavirus. One of the things that i was talking about with my staff today when we found out we would be able to speak with you and we remember from seeing other deployments of your vessel abroad, we were talking about the prospects and logistics of getting patients on and off the ship. I mean, this is not like, you know, pulling a hospital into the Central Square of downtown l. A. You are going to be at port. How does it work in terms of getting patients on board and off board . How easy is that and how flexible can you be about that . All of our patients will come as in hospital transfers from other hospitals here in l. A. They will come to us and come to the cruise ship terminal right now. There are ramps and go from there. How many staff are on board the mercy how many doctors and nurses and how long do they expect their deployment will be . So we have just under 1,000 here. Twothirds are medical and onethird are medical. It takes a lot of personnel to make a hospital run. We have Information Technolo technologiests and others that support the patient care mission and addition 76 that drive the ship, navigate it place to place. As for as time, were supposed to be here coordinating with the state of california, local authorities and well take our queues from them as long as they decide we should be here. Captain john, the Commanding Officer. Sir, thank you for taking time to explain to us your mission and thank you to you and all the men and women on board that ship for what youre doing. All right. Again, the mercy has landed. Has arrived in los angeles. The come fokocomfort is due ik over the next couple days. They do not expect to treat coronavirus patients. They hope to be basically a relief valve for noncoronavirus patients to have someplace else to get expert care as hospitals in new york and soon in los angeles start to fill up almost entirely with coronavirus cases. All right. More to get to tonight. Stay with us. Hes been around the world, hes seen it all, its always what you think of, [crowd] surprise right there, all the time, with over 40 fully integrated applications, you wont be able to contain your excitement either. From just a dollar a day per employee, run your entire business with zoho one. The operating system for business. I want to finish tonight by checking back in with a story we were first to bring you a week ago from king county, washington which of course is the original epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in this country. We have been watching efforts in king county to build a new temporary hospital on a local soccer field. This is one of the first we saw starting to go up anywhere in the country. King county officials plan to use the soccer field for a 200bed hospital. Again, trying to relief the pressure on overwhelmed local hospitals trying to free up room for sicker patients. As we reported a few days ago, king county started in on this last week. Here is an update how construction is going now. Obviously, just incredible progress theyve made. They have gone from local field to nearly ready hospital just in a matter offurther ad Hawk Construction made by the neighbors. We dont know who put these up. They say were with you and welcome neighbors, thats king county, washington but were seeing building across the country. Louisiana governors warning that the hospitals will max out by next week. Officials are outfitting the enormous Convention Center in downtown new orleans to hold over 1,000 hospital beds, again, theyre trying to ease the strain on the citys existing hospitals by offering this other place. They plan on having 120 beds operational in the new orleans Convention Center by the end of this weekend and then hundreds more beds to come online. In illinois, the mayor of chicago announced plans to reserve 1,000 Chicago Hotel rooms for coronavirus patients who are symptomatic and have mild or moderate symptoms and for those unable to go home for fears of spreading the virus to her household. Thats an important part of this controlling these epidemics, right is to isolate people who are sick away from their households in places they can recover safely. In california in Fresno County officials announced today they are planning a makeshift hospital on the local fresno fairgrounds with 250 beds and florida, Miamidade County construction underway on a 250bed Field Hospital on the fairgrounds there. We reported on that several days ago. Officials expect construction to wrap up today and on the state fairgrounds in oregon, the National Guard is well on their way to opening a makeshift hospital there to handle the surge in hospital patients. Were seeing cities and counties across the country build outField Hospitals in all kinds of places. And as it turns out in some parts of the country, you can also sail Hospital Capacity into port. Once again, the u. S. Naval ship mercy arrived in los angeles today. We just spoke with the officer
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